Description of problem: When anaconda brings up X the resulting screen is about 3"x5" and totally unreadable. Because the live disk segfaults during boot I can't check if this problem is present there also. F7 works fine on this hardware. Hardware: GeForce 8600 GT DELL 2405FPW Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from the iso image. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Have you tried to install in text mode (write "linux text" on the initial command prompt)? If you managed to do that, do you have X running? /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf attached to this bug as separate uncompressed attachments would be very helpful. Thank you.
Created attachment 238511 [details] f8test3 xorg.conf file
Created attachment 238521 [details] f8test3 xorg.conf file
The text mode install works -- well, it wants to install grub on my MBR, tsk, tsk -- but it won't boot on account of bug #252443, so all I have is the xorg.conf file and it doesn't look very useful. F7 works fine on this system, although I haven't tried the nv driver recently. I think there was a message about an unrecognized device when anaconda did the video probe, so maybe the nv driver has changed. I'll try moving a different kernel over to fc8 and see if I can get it to boot.
OK, fc8 booted with 2.6.23.1 patched with the cfs updates. X came up as expected after I edited inittab and turned off SELinux (which tossed a bunch of complaints but allowed X to run). I've attached Xorg.0.log.
Created attachment 240201 [details] Xorg.0.log from successful boot
I still get occasional X failures, my screen comes up black when gdm starts and displays the error message "can not display this mode". I will attach the Xorg.0.log files from both a successful and failed boot. The differences are small, but maybe they will tell you something.
Created attachment 240971 [details] Bad boot I pushed the reset button here after waiting a bit. So I hope this log is valid.
Created attachment 240981 [details] Good boot.
This problem is replicated in f9-preview, except the resolution is usable. I have a 1920x1200 screen and it looks fine after install, but during install the screen is about 480 pixels high and expanded to the full screen width.
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